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Planned Parenthood Northern California Workers Unionize With SEIU Local 1021 | KQED
“It’s really putting us at a place where we are overwhelmed, we’re understaffed, we are unsupported by upper management in a lot of our ideas and things that we have suggested,” Delhonte told KQED. “So this is like a huge move for all of us.”
This week, an Arizona Supreme Court ruling found state officials can enforce a law dating from 1864 that criminalizes all abortions except in cases where a woman’s life is at risk.
Delhonte said that she and her coworkers decided to unionize because it will help them give the best level of care they can to their patients, many of whom, she says, are lower- or middle-income, unhoused or members of the LGBTQ community seeking a safe place to find care.
“We love the organization,” said Delhonte. “We wanted to see meaningful change that protects us and, by protecting us, protects our patients and the care that they receive.”
KQED’s Attila Pelit, Lakshmi Sarah and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.